Decomposing the interaction between retention interval and study/test practice: The role of retrievability

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 962-975

  Jang, Yoonhee ^a   Wixted, John T ^a   Pecher, Diane ^b   Zeelenberg, René ^b   Huber, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Forgetting; Retrievability; Testing effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; TIME;

HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); MENTAL RECALL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861316125     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2011.638079     Document Type: Article

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